Monthly archive

November, 2015

On October 18, 2015, James Ernest Beitler, 70, died of complications from a stroke he had in February.
Jim’s entire life was an adventure that began early every morning when he would get up in eager anticipation of what the day would bring his way. He worked on construction projects from the southern Mohave Desert to the northern Aleutian...

Dillon could become more than a two-traffic-light town next year, with the proposed addition of a traffic light on North Montana Street near Safeway.
“Looking at the traffic flow and pattern there,” Dillon Police Chief Paul Craft told the Dillon Tribune of the point where North Montana Street meets the short but heavily travelled...

Two unrelated accidents in which the driver fled the scene became entwined in the early morning hours of Oct. 28. The first led to the second, leaving 32-year-old Mary Elizabeth Merino dead along Interstate 15 and Donald G. Welborn, Jr., 49, in custody at the Beaverhead County Law Enforcement Annex, charged with vehicular assault while under...

It is the duty of the owner of any premises within the City of Dillon to keep the sidewalks in front of and adjoining his premises clean and safe for pedestrians, and with all possible dispatch to remove snow, ice, slush and other impediments to safe convenient foot travel, and to prevent continuous accumulation of the same upon such sidewalks....

October, 2015

Last Wednesday morning Beaverhead County High School implemented an
evacuation as specified through the school’s Emergency Management Plan
due to a threat scribbled on a bathroom stall wall.
Superintendent Gary Haverfield explained that the administration’s first obligation is the safety of the students and officials will always err...

Dillon Mayor Mike Klakken is hoping to soon hire longtime city resident
Richard Miller as a temporary administrative assistant to help the city
operate for several more months without a city director of operations.
Miller said he thinks a deal could be finalized early next week after he returns
to Dillon from a trip out of state.
A retired...

In late summer of 2014, the water of the Upper Beaverhead River became markedly cloudy – or turbid.
Biologists took note and monitored the conditions, and the river cleared up in the fall. However, after a stretch of warm weather in late spring of 2015, the Upper Beaverhead began running turbid again and has remained that way ever since.
To...

The Beaverhead County Study Commission has recommended to the Beaverhead County Commission that there be no changes to the current form of county government.
In a report issued by the three-member study commission – Scott Marsh, Mitch Staley and Stacey Reynolds – response from the people at 15 separate public meetings suggested that...

She started on the job in January, months after impressing nearly everyone involved in her hiring process that she was the best candidate.
But Dr. Beth Weatherby officially began her tenure as the 22nd chancellor of the University of Montana Western on Saturday afternoon in an inauguration ceremony in Beier Auditorium.
“That was exciting,...

September, 2015

Beaverhead County High School Superintendent Gary Haverfield announced on Monday at the Sept. meeting of the Beaverhead County High School Board of Trustees that the school had received yet another national award. Haverfield told the board that the school earned Safe Sports School 1st Team recognition from the National Athletic Trainers...